The first installment of the popular ‘Lesson’ series—featuring therapist, professor, and reluctant sleuth, David Unger.Sex, Murder, and Videotapes—join David Unger as he tackles his very first murder mysteryWhen David is drafted at the last minute to cover a class on Human Sexuality, he prepares by attending a Sex Therapists conference, where a fellow attendee confides that she’s being blackmailed over illicitly obtained sex-tapes.Things take a sinister turn when mu...

"A Jewish man flees 1938 Germany only to find a new and unexpected nightmare" in Guatemala, in this tale of dark humor and desperate suspense ( Publishers Weekly).In 1938, as Samuel Berkow's tramp steamer from Germany approaches Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, he is full of hope that he will be able to find a family member and begin to remake his life in the new world.But in this sweltering, chaotic, and hostile port town, he will have to face down many...

Life in Guatemala is simple for young Davico and his older brother Felipe ... until soldiers invade, and the blackouts begin.Davico lives with his family above La Casita — the Little House — in Guatemala City in the early 1950s. But it’s not just a little house. It’s also the family restaurant!The restaurant provides plenty of distraction and adventure for Davico and his older brother, Felipe. The mean cook, Augusto, and the always-late waiter, Otto, love t...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum brings the world of her childhood vividly to life in The Girl from Chimel. This evocative memoir for children is beautifully illustrated by noted Mazatec-Mexican artist Domi.Before the thirty-six-year war in Guatemala, despite the hardships the Maya people had endured since the time of the Conquest, life in their highland villages had a beauty and integrity that were changed forever by t...

In this book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum returns to the world of her childhood.The Honey Jar brings us the ancient stories her grandparents told her when she was a little girl, and we can imagine her listening to them by the fire at night. These Maya tales include creation myths, a classic story about the magic twins (which can also be found in the Popol Vuh), explanations of how and why certain natural phenomena came t...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum returns once more to the world of her childhood in The Secret Legacy.Seven-year-old Ixkem is chosen by her grandfather amongst all the villagers to inherit the responsibility for tending his special cornfield. Ixkem goes to the field and begins to shout and stomp to frighten away the animals who would like to share the harvest. Suddenly a mass of tiny creatures appear — the b'e'n — secre...

**“[A] brilliant translation . . . Electrifying vividness animates every page.” ―Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine“A formidable new English translation.” ―The New Yorker“[A] masterful translation.” ―The Washington PostNobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English translation in more than half a century, feat...

The second installment of the popular ‘Lesson’ series—featuring therapist, professor, and reluctant sleuth, David Unger.When a musician client asks David to accompany him to the 1982 US Festival, death is the last thing on his mind. Angry groupies can be passionate, sure, but murder? Nah.David’s optimism is swiftly rocked and rolled, when exotic drugs and death appear as supporting acts, and the festival mood shifts. Even the lovely Lilah can’t distract David from reality. ...

A collection of lyrical, philosophical early poems by “one of Chile’s foremost poets” (Publishers Weekly)Enrique Lihn is among the most important Chilean poets, alongside Nicanor Parra, since the generation of Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro, and Pablo Neruda. Lihn’s first two poetry books represented here—Nada se escurre (Nothing Slips Away), 1949, and Poemas de este tiempo y de otro (Poems of This Time and Another), 1955—introduce hi...

The third installment of the popular 'Lesson' series—featuring therapist, professor, and reluctant sleuth, David Unger.While reluctantly attending a Therapist conference, David is relieved to find escape from his colleagues when a random stranger asks for his help. But curiosity can be a curse.He's unwittingly drawn into a family feud, and doesn't need to attend classes to know these never end well.Sure enough, people start dying, and a cryptic note, snarky siblings...

The fifth installment of the popular 'Lesson' series—featuring therapist, professor, and reluctant sleuth, David Unger.It's 1984, and David is off the couch once more and providing support to the team-building efforts of a publishing start-up at the LA Dodgers Adult Fantasy Camp in Florida.As David seeks the elusive home run that will elevate his love life from the minors, team rivalries simmer and he is drawn into a web of lies, suspicion, and drug-smuggling. Teambuilding ...

The eighth installment of the popular 'Lesson' series—featuring therapist, professor, and reluctant sleuth, David Unger.David reluctantly joins members of his High School Bridge Club at their 20th Class Reunion in the hope of solving a personal mystery from his own past. But reuniting soon delivers a few unwelcome truths, and fear sets in when a classmate is found dead.As old rivalries and resentments flare, the gathering on the Queen Mary in Long Beach for a weekend of mem...